Please note, many of these recordings are 10+ years old. For many more siren recordings, please visit YouYube.com as there are well over 5,000 videos of sirens on there!
Do your family a favor and use headphones :-)
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0:58 | 1.2MB | Federal 2001 Movie from Williamson, TN (MPEG Movie) | |
2.0MB | American Signal's T-128 Test Movie (MPEG Movie) | ||
0:39 | 1.6MB | Clip from "The Time Machine" featuring the sounds of a Carters siren, and a cameo shot of the Federal Model 5 housing. This movie requires Quicktime 5.0 or newer with the Sorenson-3 Codec |
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1.0MB | Civil Defense film showing the Chrysler siren and an air raid drill Recorded from PBS's "Race for the Superbomb" This movie requires Quicktime 5.0 or newer with the Sorenson-3 Codec |
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0:32 | 4.6MB | "Let's Face It" (MPEG Movie) A Federal Civil Defense PSC featuring the Thunderbolt and Model D sirens |
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0:17 | 515K | British WWII A.R.P. Newsreel clip featuring the Carters siren This movie requires Quicktime 5.0 or newer with the Sorenson-3 Codec |
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My Recordings
Recorded with a Sony TCD-D8 DAT and AT822 Microphone |
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0:29 | 575.7K | Federal 7T dual-tone air raid siren Recorded from outdoors with siren housing removed. |
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0:31 | 496.7K | WWII Carters British hand-crank air-raid siren | |
0:18 | 292.2K | Federal G-1 hand-crank siren | |
0:24 | 391K | Federal Model 2T 498 / 622 Hz Recorded outdoors |
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1:53 | 1.8MB | Brattleboro Thunderbolt 1000 in alert mode, part of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant warning system | |
1:52 | 1.8MB | Brattleboro Thunderbolt 1000 in attack wail, part of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant warning system | |
Not My Recordings
These recordings are mostly donated or found on the web |
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4:05 | 2MB | Federal 500SHTT 10/12 port Alert Recorded by Ron Wilbanks |
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0:22 | 351.1K | ACA P-50 Recording appears to have been shortened crudely, but still very worth listening to |
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2:29 | 1.2MB | Model 3 This is a strangely drawn-out 3-cycle test (lack of horsepower) Recorded by Jason Chrismon in his home town |
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1:24 | 662.9K | STH-10 attack wail, donated by Mike Stalnecker MPEG'd from an 8-bit 8kHz file, so may not sound true to the orignal siren |
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1:16 | 751.1K | Federal Model 7, 8-port version (best guess) donated by Brett Jones | |
0:45 | 448.9K | British Carter siren giving a 30 second All Clear This was labeled as British where I found it, but some people think it is a slow 2T22 |
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0:32 | 318.3K | SD-10 2-cycle test from uvfr.org | |
1:58 | 924.7K | 3T22 high-low wailing fire signal contributed by Brett Jones | |
1:35 | 750.5K | 3T22 in high-low mode recorded and contributed by Brett Jones | |
1:04 | 504.2K | 2HP ACA Screamer, single-tone, recorded by Brett Jones Distorted during recording, but you can still get an idea, and you can hear the capacitor motor's switch kill the spin-down |
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0:55 | 1.1MB | Model 2 sounding the attack warning | |
1:19 | 1.6MB | Unknown hand siren 1 | |
0:34 | 663.2K | Unknown hand siren 2 | |
0:19 | 383.6K | Unknown hand siren 3 | |
1:30 | 879.4K | Yugoslavian air raid warning | |
1:19 | 1.4MB | Long attack signal (single-tone) with other sirens audible in the background | |
0:55 | 1.1MB | 2T22 noon test in Alliance, Alberta Canada Recorded by Sonic Studios at Simon Fraser University |
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1:15 | 1.2MB | Sirens in Belgrade Recorded by Nee in Yugoslavia |
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0:56 | 884.9K | More sirens in Belgrade | |
0:38 | 378.8K | Federal SD-10 Terrible old recording, not indicative of actual sound. |
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0:35 | 276K | Federal Model 2 from On-stage Noise Division | |
0:40 | 318.2K | Fire siren, single-tone | |
0:20 | 203.3K | Fire siren, single-tone | |
0:44 | 438K | Air raid siren, single-tone wailing | |
0:42 | 419K | Sentry 3V8, single-phase 5HP capacitor-start motor version
Note that you can hear the capacitor motor's switch abruptly slow the siren when it re-engages during the winding down (after the last wail). |
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0:43 | 422.9K | Sentry 40V2T | |
1:37 | 1.5MB | Sterling M | |
3:09 | 1.9MB | Thunderbolt 1000 Alert | |
1:08 | 537.3K | Thunderbolt 1000T | |
1:19 | 775.4K | Thunderbolt 1003 steady high-low fire signal | |
0:59 | 351.0K | Thunderbolt 1003 wailing high-low fire signal Notice that this 1003 has one inoperative solenoid on the low note. |